R Jobs in the West Midlands

R
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited R over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 225 208
Rank change year-on-year +54 -17 +53
Permanent jobs citing R 21 40 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.46% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.23% 1.91% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14 38 38
10th Percentile - £30,500 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £58,752 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +46.88% -23.81%
75th Percentile £56,938 £80,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,875 £130,446 £66,250
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 942 2,099 2,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.17% 24.31% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 608 1,724 1,183
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,625 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for R in the West Midlands

R
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for R in the West Midlands

R
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the West Midlands

R
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +30 9 £45,000 -35.71% 10
Staffordshire +37 8 £53,688 +7.38% 5
Coventry - 2 £57,500 - 2
Warwickshire - 1 £55,000 - 2
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Power Platform
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.76%) HBase
5 1 (4.76%) Impala
5 1 (4.76%) Metadata
5 1 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
5 1 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (4.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
3 5 (23.81%) Marketing
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.52%) Police
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Lead Data Scientist
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Senior
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) JSON
2 2 (9.52%) XML
3 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Plotly
3 1 (4.76%) PySpark
3 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.76%) Regular Expression
3 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.76%) Shiny
3 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Machine Learning
2 16 (76.19%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 11 (52.38%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (47.62%) Data Science
6 8 (38.10%) Analytics
6 8 (38.10%) Data Analysis
6 8 (38.10%) Mathematics
7 7 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 7 (33.33%) Data Privacy
7 7 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
8 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
8 6 (28.57%) Deep Learning
8 6 (28.57%) Statistics
8 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
9 5 (23.81%) Customer Experience
9 5 (23.81%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (23.81%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 5 (23.81%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (95.24%) SQL
3 13 (61.90%) Java
4 12 (57.14%) C++
5 9 (42.86%) C#
6 7 (33.33%) C
6 7 (33.33%) Dart
6 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (33.33%) MATLAB
6 7 (33.33%) PHP
6 7 (33.33%) Ruby
6 7 (33.33%) Rust
6 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.76%) Bash
8 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (4.76%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Degree
2 7 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Flume
1 1 (4.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kibana
1 1 (4.76%) logstash
1 1 (4.76%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Informatica
4 1 (4.76%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (4.76%) SAP